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Lauren Jarvis

A seal rests off the coast of Coll. The region is home to an impressive diversity of mammals, including minke whales, visiting Orca, common and bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises.

Seabirds congregate above the surface of waters off the coast of Coll.

Danny Renton of Seawilding.

Danny Renton of Seawilding holds a native oyster. Restoration of the beds of these molluscs — now scattered and depleted — is likely to provide an economic boom as well as an environmental one.

The isle of Coll in Argyll is located west of the larger isle of Mull. It has a resting population of less than 200 residents.